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There is one kind of charity common
enough among us? It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged,
feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit
which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being?

[However] what advances a nation or
a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members,

but to lift up the best and
the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country. -->

There is one kind of charity common
enough among us? It is that patchwork philanthropy which clothes the ragged,
feeds the poor, and heals the sick. I am far from decrying the noble spirit
which seeks to help a poor or suffering fellow being?

[However] what advances a nation or
a community is not so much to prop up its weakest and most helpless members,

but to lift up the best and
the most gifted, so as to make them of the greatest service to the country.